Safeguarding

Please find the contact details on the poster below if you have any safeguarding concerns regarding any of the children at our school, and please see our safeguarding policy. If you have a safeguarding concern regarding the headteacher, please contact the Chair of Governors, Anthony Briggs via the school office or email [email protected]

Further information can be found at www.kirkleessafeguardingchildren.co.uk;www.nspcc.org.uk; www.ceop.gov.uk  or Kirklees Children's Services Duty and Advice Team (D&A) 01484 456848.

Safeguarding Links

Kirklees Safeguarding Children Page

Families Online Magazine

Operation Encompass safeguarding statement

Designated safeguarding lead (DSL): Mrs Szewczyk

Deputy DSL (DDSL): Mrs Pearson, Mr Lonsdale, Mrs Munir

Our school is part of Operation Encompass. This is a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience domestic abuse.

Operation Encompass means that the Education Safeguarding Service will share information about domestic abuse incidents with our school PRIOR to the start of the next school day when the police have been called to a domestic incident.

Once the DSL has attended at an Operation Encompass briefing, they will cascade the principles of Operation Encompass to all DDSLs.

Our parents are fully aware that we are an Operation Encompass school.

The Operation Encompass information is stored in line with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information.

The DSL has also led training for all school staff and governors about Operation Encompass, the prevalence of domestic abuse and the impact of this abuse on children. We have also discussed how we can support our children following the Operation Encompass notification.

We are aware that we must do nothing that puts the child(ren) or the non-abusing adult at risk.